new_blog/projects/PPI.md

Pagwin's Program Instantiator (PPI)

The what

PPI is a program that I can use to create new projects, either from a git repo or via some program.

The commands and git repos are specified in a toml file like shown below.

[subcommands.skeletons]
cpp = ["https://git.pagwin.xyz/Pagwin/Cpp_template", "main"]

[subcommands.scripts]
rs = "cargo-quick"
npm = "npm-quick"
js = "vite-quick"
hs = "cabal-quick"

[patching]
prefix = "/home/pagwin/.local/share/patches/"

[patching.cmd_patches]

I forgot about that patching section so that might be something unfinished oops.

What was learned

Libgit2 isn't very reliable so using the git cli is generally preferred for things like this.